Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York 7, Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia last week, famed Edwin Powell Hubble of California's Mt. Wilson Observatory-accepting the Franklin Institute's coveted medal for "extensive study of the nebulae, particularly those outside our galaxy, as a result of which: the dimensions of observed space have been greatly increased"-announced discovery of a fifth motion in which the man sitting before his fire unwittingly shares. This is a motion of the whole Milky Way relative to other star galaxies glimmering in the abysses of space...
...Philadelphia Story. Katharine Hepburn at her most stunning in a clever, impolite Philip Barry comedy (TIME, April...
...flowing tranquillity of the Agnus Dei, choir, soloists and instrumentalists did themselves proud last week, mightily impressed visiting critics with the musical authority of Director Jones. As for Ifor Jones, he has made no secret of his ambition to do in Bethlehem what Leopold Stokowski did in Philadelphia. Stokowski was also a church organist before he took over the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Once the visitors were ashore, the correspondents rushed around ferreting out interesting facts about their private arrangements. Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss...